Quotes About Attachment

Care? He didn't care. He loved her.

trying to prove some stupid point to himself that he didn't need her. It was such a lie. He did need her.

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.

Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home. Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?

I had the loveliest pony when I was your age. I called him Zip. He ate apples straight out of my hand. I'm deathly allergic to horse hair, of course, and wept buckets of tears every time he was near, but it was worth it. I loved him so.

You're the glue.

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.

Odd that you could be so angry at someone and devoted to him at the same time.

Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours. -Oliver

She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been.

I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack

I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.

Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away.

Some codependents become financially dependent

When a codependent discontinued his or her relationship with a troubled person, the codependent frequently sought another troubled person and repeated the codependent behaviors with that new person. These behaviors, or coping mechanisms, seemed to prevail throughout the codependent's life—if that person didn't change these behaviors.

Yes, I know that what you're holding on to is important. Everything that I have ever had to let go of was important to me, too. If it wasn't important, letting go wouldn't be a struggle. We'd just put it down and walk away. You've been given today. Will you use it or will you miss out on today's wonder because you're too preoccupied with holding on to things that are beyond your control?